Addressing-machine.



f U. G. LEE. ADDRESSING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR.29, 1914.

1,122,617, Patented D(=)(J.29,1914.

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citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, Illinois, have invented certain new -.-'and useful Improvements in Addressing- To all whom it may concern:

- ULYssEs e.- LEE, or CHICAGO, rumors, AssIeiion 'ro MONTAGUE MAILING MACHINERY arnnr rnicn.

00., A CORPORATION OF TENNESSEE.

ADDRESSING-MACHINE:

Be it known that I, ULYssns-G. LEE, 2.

Machines, ofwhich'the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to a m.

- chine for printing public service bills or the like, being similar to that disclosed in application for Letters Patent of the United States filed by'me April 15, 1912,

.#690,905, my present invention including means for preventing the record plates being taken from the hopper except at prede: termined intervals, so that the record plates will be spaced apart at intervals on the feeder to permit making a series of lmpressions from each plate as it is passing under the impression head. One result that may be accomplished by this machine is the printing, for instancefof bills having attached thereto one or more coupons so that the impression may be made on the coudotted. lines.

-means for giving a step by step movement pons as well as on the main portion of the bill.

In the accompanying drawings, I have shown an which Figure 1 is a front View, and Fig. 2 is a detail cross sectional view with some of the parts in elevation and some parts in Fig. 3 is a detail view of to the plate feeder.

The address ,or record plates employed are those used inthe- Montague system, though, the invention is not limited in this respect. The impression head may. be of various forms, but in the particular construction shown it consists of a bar 1 which is reciprocated vertically through rods 2 from any suitable driving mechanism. The bar 1 carries the impression means, and while this means may assume various forms I show in the example illustrated a'series of impression pads 3 adjustably mounted at 4: on the impression bar 1,-so that they; can be set at different points along this bar or removed. f

Various forms of feed means may be employed for moving the record plates to the printing point or to the several printing points, and as an example of any such Imeans I show an endless chain 5 the upper example of my invention in Specification of Letters Patent. Patented D 29 1914 Application filed Apri129, 1914. Serial No. 835,262;

stretch of which passes along a table 6 and e is provided with dogs 6 spaced apart a lit tle more than the length of the record plates which are indicated at a. These record plates are guided along a channel or Way' indicated at 7, 7, and they are taken from a hopper indicated diagrammatically at 8, in which hopper the plates are arranged in a pile, the feed dog's taking hold of the lowermost one of the pile. The feeder passes around a driving sprocket 9 which. may be driven in any suitable way step by step, and about another sprocket 10. More or less of the impression pads 3 may be used, and when one pad is used the machine /may be employed to secure an impression successively or from one plate after another by simply supplying the record plates ,one to each dog of the chain, or other form of feeder, each action of theplate feeder bringing a' plate under the impression pad. Such use would be, for instance, where. it is desired to address envelops. Where it isfdesired to make a plurality of impressions, for instance on a coupon bill, or upon a sheet or form, together with a separate record strip, a plurality of impression pads are employed to make up the impression member, and we will suppose as an instance that three such pads are employed as shown in Fig. 1. From each plate, therefore, three. impressions would be taken as the plate moves under the impression head made up of the three pads, and the next following plate would not come into action beneath the impression head until the impressions had been made from the first plate, and this had been moved from under the impression head toward the left to be discharged from the machine or into a suitable stacker hopper or chute.

' For determining the spacing of the plates various means might be employed, but in the particular constructionshOWiLra Iifting v finger or bar 11 is used e3 ending up through an opening in-the tablet The lower end of this lifting finger is connected hopper 8, and therefore two of the feed dogs 7 lowered and the feed dog will take the lowermost plate and feed it toward the impression point, and on. arriving under the first impression pad, 2'. 6., at the right of the set shown.

the set shown, an impression will be made, and at the next plate feeding action this plate will. be shifted under the second impression pad, and an impression will be 'made here on the form or sheet, but as the preceding dog and the following dog are empty, no impressions will be made at either the first or the third impression pads. The

' next action will carry the record plate to the third pad, and empty dogs will be adjacent the first and second pads. An impression will then be made at the third pad when the cross head comes down, but no impressions will be made at the first and second pads. The next action of the feeder will carry the record plate which has now completed its work from under the third pad, and the next following record plate will be located under the first pad, thatis, the pad at the right of It will be seen from the above that the machine is organized to feed record plates in close order so that for 1nstance in feeding envelops an impression can be made from a separate plate at each stroke of the impression head, or the plates may be fed at intervals, as just described,

and a series of impressions taken from the said plate upon its assuming different positionsunder .the impression means, wh1ch may be formed of the separate pads shown,

or of other forms. \Vhen the plates are to be fed in close order, one for each dog, the lifter 11 is made inoperative, and this may be done in any suitable way by detaching the lifter from the machine. It will be understood also that the machine may be organized to secure any desired spacing of the recordplates by changing the mechanism for operating the lifter, that is to say, every other feed dog may be empty or two dogs may be empty, as in the example shown.

Any suitable form of inking ribbon mechanism may be employed well-known 1n the art.

As in the application above mentioned, automatic feed mechanism may be employed for feeding the forms or sheets to receive the impressions, and this mechanism may be similar to that described in said application or ofother forms. By any suitable arrangement of change speed mechanism the feeding means for the forms may be set to allow the sheet or form which is to receive the impression to remain at rest for either one impression stroke or for a plurality of strokes of the impression head, or the machine may be fed by hand.

While the feeder for the record plates means employed for giving it a step by step movement, I would mention as an instance of-means that may be used that shown in Letters Patent of the United States granted to me J an uary 16, 1912, #1,014:,762.

In Fig. 3 is shown a pawl 15 carried-by a wheel or disk 16 loose on the shaft 9 of the driving sprocket .9, said pawl engaging the toothed block 17 fixed on said shaft. The

disk 16 is oscillated and its pawl therefore gives a step by step forward movement to the shaft 9 on which it is supported and to the sprocket fixed on said shaft. It is moved in one direction by achain 18 connected with any suitable moving part of the machine, and in the other direction it is-moved by a chain 19 and a spring 20, the latter be ing attached to any suitable frame part.

I claim as my invention 1- i 1. In combination impression means disposed at a'plurality of impression points, record plates, feed means for moving said record plates seriatz'm to and past the impression points, and means for automatically supplying the record plates to and spacing them in relation to the feeder means distances apart to permit each plate to make impressions at different impression points and pass out of range of said impression means before an impression is-made from the next following record plate on the feed means, substantially as described.

2.,In combination impression means disposed at a plurality of impression points, record plates, feed means for moving said record plates scm'atz'm to and past the impression points, and means for automatically supplying the record plates to and spacing them in relation to the feeder means dis-- means comprising a hopper, and means at said hopper to eliminate at times the function of the plate feeder means of taking plates fromsaid hopper, substantially as described.

3. In combination impression means disposed at a plurality of impression points,

record plates, feed means for moving said record plates serial/2 m to and past the impression points, and means for automatically supplying the record plates to and spacing them in relation to the feeder means distances apart to permit each plate to make impressions at different impression points and pass out of range of said impression means before an impression is made from the next following record plate on the feed means, said plate supplying and spacing means comprising a hopper, and a lifter at said hopper to lift the pile of plates to prevent the feeder means from engaging the lowermost plate, substantially as described. 4. In combination impression means disposed at a plurality of impression points, record plates, plate feeder means having dogs for moving said plates to and past the impression points serz'atim, and 'means for automatically supplying said plates to the feeder means at intervals to space-the plates thereon and leave some of the dogs empty,

substantially as described.

5. In combination impression means disposed at a plurality of impression points, record plates, a hopper therefor, plate feeder means, and means for eliminating at times the function of the plate feeder means comprising a lifting finger to engage the plates,

and a cam for operating substantially as described.

6. In combination impression means having a plurality of removable and adjustable impression heads, record plates, feeder means for the plates having dogs thereon for engaging the plates and spaced apart to bring the lifting finger,

plates in succession to an impression point,

means for supplying the plates to the feeder means and automatically spacing the plates thereon to leave some of the dogs empty,

- substantially as described.

7. In combination impression means, a hopper for record plates, feeder means having devices spaced apart along the same for feeding the plates from the hopper to the impression means, and means for automatically leaving certain of said devices empty to thereby eliminate the function of said certain device's of feeding plates to the impression point, substantially as described.

8. In combination impression means, a series of record plates, feed means for the record plates having-devices for engaging the record plates, and means for automatically supplying the record plates to and spacing them in relation to the feeder means to leave certain of said devices empty to thereby eliminate at certain times the function of said feeder means of presenting a plate to said impression means, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I afliX my signature in presence of tWo Witnesses.

1 ULYSSES G. LEE. Witnesses:

. FRED B. JORDAN,

JAMES M. PERKINS. 

